Weekend Recap - Um, From Last Weekend Too

I've been a bad blogger - the weekend out-of-town threw off my schedule so I'm going to catch you up on all the "exciting" (read "completely boring") goings-on in my life.  I've seen the bullet-form blog post used in a lot of different places, but I give credit to all who have gone before me in this creative tool to get the writing juices flowing - not my idea.  Here you go:

 

LAST WEEKEND:

• The weekend in BFE, Louisiana was relaxing - there were naps, and gun shooting and lots of home-cooked meals and birthday cake.
• There was also another Giants' loss and much ribbing from my beloved father-in-law to their loss the previous week to a certain NFL team from Louisiana.
• Manbug and I had a HUGE fight on Friday night - the night before his birthday.  When we woke up Saturday morning, I wasn't even sure that I was going to go with him.  But after a heartfelt apology and a pathetic "This birthday sucks" statement, I hopped in the shower, forgave him and drove the entire five hours so he could do some work in the car. It was a perfect day for a drive.
• Fights suck but making-up rocks (especially when it wasn't your fault.).  :)
• When raccoons get hit by cars, their corpses look like they are resting peacefully on their front paws as they gaze at traffic. I know this because we saw at least 25 dead raccoons on the side of the road (I stopped keeping count after that).
• The bed in one of my in-laws' guestrooms is a double and my husband rolled on top of me in his sleep no fewer than 10 times in the two nights we slept there. We are barely surviving with a queen, so a double is just not-doable.
• Sadly, most of the relaxation from the weekend was erased on the drive home - POURING rain and lots of logging trucks on the two-lane highway that brings us back to Austin.  The previous five hour trip took us SEVEN hours.  SEVEN.

THIS WEEKEND (MEANING THIS PAST WEEKEND, NOT THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND):

• I'm going to consider our first Halloween in our new home a "success" - we had a good number of trick-or-treaters and I only stuck my foot in my mouth three times (sometimes I just panic around kids - not sure why).
• Our over-flowing bowl of candy was reduced to about a handful!
• There are no street-lamps in our neighborhood so it gets very, very dark.  We lined our walkway with these to help kids find their way -

• The directions on these little treasures advise you to fill the bag with sand. FYI - Lowe's only sells bags of sand, the smallest of which was 50 pounds.  What the hell was I supposed to do with the other 49 1/2 pounds?
• So instead, I thought I would buy the smallest bag of "crap to weigh down a small bag" available in the Garden Department - a small bag of polished stones that are meant for decorative ponds. But this tiny bag was $34! The semi-comatose employee in that department said they were $10 - which I explained to the cashier.  She ended up giving them to me for that price because there was a hole in the bag (mind you, someone was going to find a fully broken-open bag under some shelving that night.  Ahem.  It was HEAVY!).
• So here are my sad pathetic attempts at capturing our house on Halloween night:

•  Can you see in that last picture how dark our freaking neighborhood gets! It's truly scary.
• Thankfully, my husband's choice of movies for that night wasn't all that scary - so I didn't get too afraid.  The movie, "Nuke' Em High," contained lines such as "I don't give a wet fart what you think" and "Make like a hockey stick and get the puck out of here."  It was truly, one of his worst picks - but we watched it through to the end.

So, in short - we didn't really celebrate Halloween, but it was a pretty good weekend.  I hope everyone had a great time!

P.S.  Can someone PLEASE tell me if there is a way to spellcheck on the new version of blogger?  I CAN'T STAND THIS!